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Show A GENTILE'S STATEMENTS. Tlie Pi'0ihit'n Government a Model for tUe Frt-e Republic T lie Lnml of Indmtry nnU l'roiperlty Brig hmn'a Trip Soulhvvard Col. Baxter's Bax-ter's Story. A nS'w'i reporter found Col. J. C Baxter, a prominent Gentile of Salt Lake city, in an up town hotel. Q. To what cause do you attribute the present prosecution of the Mormon Mor-mon leaders? A. Mainly to the influence of the Methodists. .Judge McKean and Gov. Wood are both Methodists, and some of tbe Gentiles of Utah are just as fanatical fan-atical as the Mormons. Q. What is the common feeling of the Gentiles concerning these prosecutions. pros-ecutions. A. The (J entile merchants and ' capitalists are not exactly in favor of the way in which things are being done. They don't see how society is goin to be improved in any way, as a Mormon who has sil wives can neither be induced or forced to aban-t aban-t don six and lake to one. THE NATIONALITY OF THE SAINTS. Q. What nationality are the Mor-; Mor-; uions, and how are thoy educated? A. Tlio majority of the Mormons arc English, Welsh, Swedes, Xinns, and Norwegian?. There are people among them from every State in the Union, as many from Massachusetts as any other Stnte. The masses are ignorant, but among the polygamous wives are to he found ladies of good training, graduates of eastern seminaries. semi-naries. Q. Is polygamy common among the Mormons? A. There is a very mistaken notion ' about that. Not one married man in twenty rive has more than one wife. At the same time polygamy is not j confined tolhe wealthy daises. I . know a wretchedly poor man named ! Bates, vosiding in the Ophir district, i who lias scvim wives and forty-two children. He keeps his wives at ! work herding slock. It is one redeem-I redeem-I ing feature ahout Mormons that they ' all work, both men au women. ! THE MORMON WOMEN SATISFIED. Q Aro the women, as a rule, satisfied with their lot? A. The only case of dissatisfaction I ever knew was that of Mrs. Hawkins, i and the had good reason. Hawkins j married her in Birmingham, Kngland, ! and she bad four or five children by I him. After he came lo Morraondoni ! he married Klizabelh Mears, and put ! the first wife in the back part of the house, giving the best rooms to the new wile. Two or three years afterward after-ward he married another wife, and turned the first wife out of doors and made her live in an out-house. She testified at tha trial that she was always opposed to polygamy. Q. Do the wives ever conduot business independent of the husband? A.- Quite commonly. I know ono man who is a plasterer, and three of his wives krep storeB. Q. Is I'rigbam Young very weul- tby ? A. Ho is worth millions lo my ' knowledge. It has been said that he i was one of the largest stockholders in j the Bank of Kogland; but ho said in my presence that it was not true; that what he lad was invested in the United Statos, a better place for investment in-vestment than London. G lie title to property in Mormondom is considered precarious, as the Mormons emigrated i to Utah in JS47, before the United States took possession of the country. TUB PROPHET'S FAMILY. Q. Has lirighara as large a family as is generally reported? A. He lias a family of children that nny man might bo proud of. Of his fifty children he sonds twenty-five lo tbe theatre at a time, well dressed, and tho girls at good looking as I ever saw. i lirigham ,s about seventy ytars old i himself, ile has two or three wivesof about his own age, and his youngest wile is not under forty. lie takes good care )f them, and keeps them at work, making blankets and quilts, tfce. As I said before, the one redeeming thing about the Mormons is that they all work. The pcdlers of the town are all cripples, and there are no beggars there. Q, Do you think Brigham has run away ? A. I hive thought lately that Brig-ham Brig-ham was gone for good. But last fall, about this liuio, he took just such a trip, having with him live or Bis wives, and 10D or2dU of the Nauvoo Legion. Q. What kind of men are the United States olhcials in Utah? THE SPAVINED NACI3 OF POLITICS. A. They send broken-down politi-i politi-i cians to run the Territory, men who could not get a show anywhere else. Governor Woods used to be a personal friend of Grant before the latter was general or president. lirigham Young has more brains in his boots than Woods has in his skull. Prosecuting attorney Biskin, L believe, had to leave Ohio lor something. Judgo McKcan I is interested in some mining claims, I and is scarcely a lit man to sit in judg-! judg-! mcnt on cases involving such claims, i Q What is the feeling of the Mor-j Mor-j mons toward the federal government ? j A. They really do not acknowledge the authority of the government? They fly tho United States fhg, but , their elders are preaching against the j Union every Sunday. They acknowl-1 acknowl-1 edi:e no authority, civil or religious, : but that of their prophet, t (,). Is the example of the Gentiles i having a good effect upon the Mor- mons ? J A. The (Jcntilcs who crowd to the i mines are not the best class in the 1 world. Q. Do the Uentil s flourish at Salt ! Lake ? j A. The Mormon co-operaiivc insti-j insti-j tution crushed out nearly all opposi- tion, but there is one Gentile firm at ! Salt Lake City which does a good i business. Q. Do you think thai Brigham I Young was concerned in the murder of ; Yates ? THE MnrSTAlN MEAPflW MASSAnnF.. ' A. I believe the whole Mormon church to be concerned in numberless murders, 1 believe Brigham Young instigated the Mountain Meadow massacre, mas-sacre, in which 1&7 Gentiles, men, I women and children were slaughtered. The Mormons believe that they are authorized by Heaven to adjudge per- i sons to death without the sanction of : earthly law. Bill Hickman, on whose j testimony Young has been arrested, : killed a Spaniard at Stockton la?t fall, i and I guess he wants to save his ncek. ; Q. But you say many Gentiles do : not approve tho present prosecutions?, A. Men like Buell and Bateman, I two of the greatest mine owners iu Utah, think (hat the .Mormons have ! rights as well as the Uenliles; timt congress should make a law abolishing polygamy for tho luture, by-pones to . be by-gones, the Mormons to care fur their present wives and children. Utah Territory does not owe a dollar, and without polygamy and the treasonable tendencies of the Mormon faith, it i would be a model io the iel if the ' Union. ' Q. What is the population of the Territory, and the proportionate num.- bar oi Mormons and Gentiles? A. The population of Salt Lake City is not more than 10,000, and the populalion of the Territory about 1:20,- I 000. There are S.000 or 10,000 Gentiles. Gen-tiles. Emigrants to the number of 5,000 or 6,000 came over from Wales and Norway the present summer to join the Morinpus. N. Y. Sun, .Nov. J7. |